Multimedia providing service

A server that is connected to a plurality of terminals and that processes call processing signals of said plurality of terminals, comprising:

• a database in which are stored content data that include images and reproduction environment information that indicates the reproduction environment of the content data;
• a call processing signal processor that, in the interval from placing a call by, from among said plurality of terminals, an origination-side terminal that performs speech call origination to, from among said plurality of terminals, a termination-side terminal that is the communication partner of said origination-side terminal, until the time that said termination-side terminal responds, reads said reproduction environment information from said database, transmits said reproduction environment information that was read to said origination-side terminal or said termination-side terminal, and issues a request to said origination-side terminal or said termination-side terminal which said reproduction environment information is transmitted to, to additionally establish a session composed of something other than speech;
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• terminal data transmission unit that, in the interval until said termination-side terminal responds, reads said content data from said database and transmits said content data that were read to said origination-side terminal or said termination-side terminal which said reproduction environment information is transmitted to.

A multimedia communication system that is made up of a plurality of terminals and a server that is connected to the plurality of terminals and that processes call processing signals of the plurality of terminals, wherein:

• said server has a database in which are stored content data that include images and reproduction environment information that indicates the reproduction environment of the content data, and that further, in the interval from placing a call by, from among said plurality of terminals, an origination-side terminal that performs speech call origination to, from among said plurality of terminals, a termination-side terminal that is the communication partner of said origination-side terminal, until the time that said termination-side terminal responds, reads said content data and said reproduction environment information from said database, issues a request to said origination-side terminal or said termination-side terminal to additionally establish a session composed of something other than speech, and transmits said content data and said reproduction environment information that were read to said origination-side terminal or said termination-side terminal that is issued said request;
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• said origination-side terminal or said termination-side terminal, in the interval until said termination-side terminal responds, reproduces content data that were transmitted from said server based on said reproduction environment information.